Leizhen reported some time ago that IOVA performance may degrade over time [0], but unfortunately his solution to fix this problem was not given attention.
To summarize, the issue is that as time goes by, the CPU rcache and depot rcache continue to grow. As such, IOVA RB tree access time also continues to grow. At a certain point, a depot may become full, and also some CPU rcaches may also be full when we try to insert another IOVA. For this scenario, currently we free the "loaded" CPU rcache and create a new one. This free'ing means that we need to free many IOVAs in the RB tree, which makes IO throughput performance fall off a cliff in our storage scenario: Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [6314MB/0KB/0KB /s] [1616K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [5669MB/0KB/0KB /s] [1451K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [6031MB/0KB/0KB /s] [1544K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [6673MB/0KB/0KB /s] [1708K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [6705MB/0KB/0KB /s] [1717K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [6031MB/0KB/0KB /s] [1544K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [6761MB/0KB/0KB /s] [1731K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [6705MB/0KB/0KB /s] [1717K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [6685MB/0KB/0KB /s] [1711K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [6178MB/0KB/0KB /s] [1582K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [6731MB/0KB/0KB /s] [1723K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [2387MB/0KB/0KB /s] [611K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [2689MB/0KB/0KB /s] [688K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [2278MB/0KB/0KB /s] [583K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [1288MB/0KB/0KB /s] [330K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [1632MB/0KB/0KB /s] [418K/0/0 iops] Jobs: 12 (f=12): [RRRRRRRRRRRR] [0.0% done] [1765MB/0KB/0KB /s] [452K/0/0 iops] And continue in this fashion, without recovering. Note that in this example we had to wait 16 hours for this to occur. Also note that IO throughput also becomes gradually becomes more unstable leading up to this point. As a solution this issue, we judge that the IOVA rcaches have grown too big, and just flush all the CPUs rcaches instead. The depot rcaches, however, are not flushed, as they can be used to immediately replenish active CPUs. In future, some IOVA rcache compaction could be implemented to solve the instabilty issue, which I figure could be quite complex to implement. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20190815121104.29140-3-thunder.leiz...@huawei.com/ Reported-by: Xiang Chen <chenxian...@hisilicon.com> Tested-by: Xiang Chen <chenxian...@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.ga...@huawei.com> --- drivers/iommu/iova.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iova.c b/drivers/iommu/iova.c index 45a251da5453..05e0b462e0d9 100644 --- a/drivers/iommu/iova.c +++ b/drivers/iommu/iova.c @@ -892,9 +892,8 @@ static bool __iova_rcache_insert(struct iova_domain *iovad, struct iova_rcache *rcache, unsigned long iova_pfn) { - struct iova_magazine *mag_to_free = NULL; struct iova_cpu_rcache *cpu_rcache; - bool can_insert = false; + bool can_insert = false, flush = false; unsigned long flags; cpu_rcache = raw_cpu_ptr(rcache->cpu_rcaches); @@ -913,13 +912,19 @@ static bool __iova_rcache_insert(struct iova_domain *iovad, if (rcache->depot_size < MAX_GLOBAL_MAGS) { rcache->depot[rcache->depot_size++] = cpu_rcache->loaded; + can_insert = true; + cpu_rcache->loaded = new_mag; } else { - mag_to_free = cpu_rcache->loaded; + /* + * The depot is full, meaning that a very large + * cache of IOVAs has built up, which slows + * down RB tree accesses significantly + * -> let's flush at this point. + */ + flush = true; + iova_magazine_free(new_mag); } spin_unlock(&rcache->lock); - - cpu_rcache->loaded = new_mag; - can_insert = true; } } @@ -928,9 +933,11 @@ static bool __iova_rcache_insert(struct iova_domain *iovad, spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_rcache->lock, flags); - if (mag_to_free) { - iova_magazine_free_pfns(mag_to_free, iovad); - iova_magazine_free(mag_to_free); + if (flush) { + int cpu; + + for_each_online_cpu(cpu) + free_cpu_cached_iovas(cpu, iovad); } return can_insert; -- 2.26.2 _______________________________________________ iommu mailing list iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu
